Shop Talk: Department Stores, Shoppers and Consumer Capitalism, 1945-2025

该项目旨在通过对自1945年以来一直在百货商店工作的购物者、工人和经理的口述历史访谈，加深对购物及其在澳大利亚日常生活中的重要性的理解。这个项目预计将产生该国战后百货商店的第一个历史。预期结果包括新的、更微妙的购物视角，以及通过一系列出版物、国际合作和口述历史记录档案影响零售业的挑战。这应该会为研究零售业的研究人员、在零售业工作的澳大利亚人以及普通澳大利亚人提供巨大的好处，他们的故事将被载入历史记录。

This project aims to provide a deeper understanding of shopping and its significance in everyday Australian life by using oral history interviews with shoppers, workers and managers who have engaged with department stores since 1945. This project expects to produce the first history of the country’s post-war department stores. Expected outcomes include new, more nuanced perspectives of shopping and the challenges affecting the retail sector via a range of publications, international collaborations, and an archive of oral history recordings. This should provide significant benefits to researchers examining the retail sector, to Australians working in retail, and to ordinary Australians, whose stories will be placed on the historical record.